Taking these pictures started as a hobby, born out of my obsession with all things
aviation and probably dates back to the the age of seven. These days I concentrate
on military aviation, the pictures contained here being taken at numerous public
events and air shows, media events, base visits and sometimes sitting by the airfield
fence (where this does not result in arrest!). My pictures have been used on hundreds
of websites, published in various magazines and books around the world. This website
demonstrates I am more interested in taking the photographs than creating websites...

Photography

The pictures contained here are taken on a mix of 35mm film and digital SLRs, since
2001 digital SLRs progessively replaced the film and I have not shot film now for more
than a year. Lenses used range from 17mm to 600mm.

I have owned a number of brands of equipment over the years and the specific makes and
models used are really not important.
The bulk of the film images are taken on slide film up to 100 ISO, there are also a few
taken on print film up to 400 ISO.

My current equipment is autofocus and has numerous automatic exposure modes. My personal
preference is to use manual exposure, judged with a handheld incident lightmeter for
action subjects. For static subjects I favour the convenience of Aperture-Priority mode.
When I suffer a severe lack of confidence I resort to bracketing, then regret bothering
when I look at the results.

Film Digitising

The the older (~worse) images here were scanned using an A4 flatbed from 5"x7" prints
at approximately 175 DPI. The majority however are scanned using film scanners (2700dpi/4000dpi) and are from
slides. Slowly I am re-scanning images that were from prints directly from the negatives. In
all cases the scans are cropped, spotted, scaled (to 800 pixels wide) and the resulting output is
saved in JPEG format with high compression factor to reduce the file size to a target of <100k.

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